Rita Segato

Rita Laura Segato holds a PhD and a master’s degree in social Anthropology from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a Professor of Anthropology and Bioethics at the UNESCO Chair at the University of Brasilia and a maximum-level researcher at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the director of the Anthropology and Human Rights research group. Furthermore, she is the director of the subproject ‘Inclusion policies and the legal discussion’ of the National Science and Technology Institute of Inclusion in Education and Research (INCTI). Rita Segato has been a visiting researcher at different universities in Latin America, Europe and the United States. She is the co-author along with José Jorge de Carvalho of the first proposal about introducing quotas for Black and Indigenous students at public universities in Brazil. She is a consultant for UNICEF Brazil about the topic of Indigenous Infanticide and a directorate member of the Brazilian NGO AGENDE – actions on gender.